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Bastos Lima, Mairon G.Stockholm Environment Institute
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Large-scale collective action to avoid an Amazon tipping point - key actors and interventions
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Elsevier BV,2021
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100048DOI
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https://research.chalmers.se/publication/528721URI
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https://gup.ub.gu.se/publication/305345URI
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https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-452054URI
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The destruction of the Amazon is a major global environmental issue, not only because of greenhouse gas emissions or direct impacts on biodiversity and livelihoods, but also due to the forest's role as a tipping element in the Earth System. With nearly a fifth of the Amazon already lost, there are already signs of an imminent forest dieback process that risks transforming much of the rainforest into a drier ecosystem, with climatic implications across the globe. There is a large body of literature on the underlying drivers of Amazon deforestation. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the behavioral and institutional microfoundations of change. Fundamental issues concerning cooperation, as well as the mechanisms facilitating or hampering such actions, can play a much more central role in attempts to unravel and address Amazon deforestation. We thus present the issue of preventing the Amazon biome from crossing a biophysical tipping point as a large-scale collective action problem. Drawing from collective action theory, we apply a novel analytical framework on Amazon conservation, identifying six variables that synthesize relevant collective action stressors and facilitators: information, accountability, harmony of interests, horizontal trust, knowledge about consequences, and sense of responsibility. Drawing upon literature and data, we assess Amazon deforestation and conservation through our heuristic lens, showing that while growing transparency has made information availability a collective action facilitator, lack of accountability, distrust among actors, and little sense of responsibility for halting deforestation remain key stressors. We finalize by discussing interventions that can help break the gridlock.
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Harring, Niklas,1979Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research,Department of Political Science(Swepub:gu)xharni
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Jagers, Sverker C.,1967Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,Department of Political Science,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research(Swepub:gu)xjagsv
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Löfgren, Åsa,1972Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,Department of Economics,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research(Swepub:gu)xlofas
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Persson, Martin,1976Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:cth)mpersson
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Sjöstedt, Martin,1977Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,Department of Political Science,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research(Swepub:gu)xsmarw
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Brülde, Bengt,1959Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research(Swepub:gu)xbrube
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Langlet, David,1977Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,Juridiska institutionen,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research,Department of Law,Center for Collective Action Research (CeCAR) & Department of Law, Gothenburg(Swepub:uu)davla918
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Steffen, WillAustralian National University
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Alpizar, Francisco,1974Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research(Swepub:gu)xalpfr
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Stockholm Environment InstituteCeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande
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